CNN's Honig: Jack Smith Violates DOJ Policy on Timing of Cases Affecting Elections

Unlike the rabidly anti-Trump MSNBC legal analyst Glenn Kirschner, whose legal instincts would be in line with a Keith Olbermann, CNN’s senior legal analyst Elie Honig sometimes tosses out curve balls at variance with the liberal narrative usually taken by his network. One such occasion was on Saturday morning during Honig’s appearance on Smerconish. He told the host that Jack Smith appeared to be in violation of the Department Of Justice policy that prosecutors should not select the timing of any action with an election in mind.

Here is the dilemma on that topic that Attorney General Merrick Garland is facing according to Michael Smerconish: